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Cappelen, Alexander W. - 2012

The standard economic approach to tax policy has to a large extent relied on welfarist theories of justice, in particular the utilitarian view that the government should try to maximize the sum of individual welfare. This welfarist framework has proved a productive point of departure for much...

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Measuring Unfair (in) Equality

Almås, Ingvild - 2010

The standard approach to inequality measurement regards all inequalities as being unfair. However, most people do not …

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The Effect of Welfare Reforms on Benefit Substitution

Reiso, Katrine Holm - 2014

Policy-makers have confronted welfare dependence and poverty among single mothers by imposing work requirements and time limits on the receipt of welfare benefits. Reforms with such features have generally reduced programme case-loads and increased the employment and earnings of single mothers....

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Baby Booming Inequality? Demographic Change and Inequality in Norway, 1967-2004

Almås, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2010

We demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in inequality over time are … inequality since the early 1980s is driven by the large baby boom cohorts approaching the peak of the age{earnings profile. Using … trend in inequality is highly sensitive to the method used: while the most widely used age-adjusted inequality measure …

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Good Skills in Bad Times : Cyclical Skill Mismatch and the Long-Term Effects of Graduating in a Recession

Liu, Kai - 2012

We show that cyclical skill mismatch, defined as mismatch between the skills supplied by college graduates and skills demanded by hiring industries, is an important mechanism behind persistent career loss from graduating in recessions. Using Norwegian data, we find a strong countercyclical...

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Work and Wage Dynamics Around Childbirth

Ejrnaes, Mette - 2012

This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of women who are well-established in the labour market. We estimate a flexible fixed-effects wage regression model extended by post-childbirth fixed effects. We use register data on West Germany and exploit the...

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The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries

Kunze, Astrid - 2017

Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...

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Competition and Career Advancement : The Hidden Costs of Paid Leave

Johnsen, Julian - 2020

Does leave-taking matter for young workers' careers? If so, why? We propose the competition effect—relative leave status of workers affecting their relative standing inside the firm—as a new explanation. Exploiting a policy reform that exogenously assigned four-week paid paternity leave to...

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Made in China, Sold in Norway : Local Labor Market Effects of an Import Shock

Balsvik, Ragnhild - 2014

We analyze whether regional labor markets are affected by exposure to import competition from China. We find negative employment effects for low-skilled workers, and observe that low-skilled workers tend to be pushed into unemployment or leave the labor force altogether. We find no evidence of...

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Life Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums and Internal Rates of Return

Bhuller, Manudeep - 2014

What do the education premiums look like over the life cycle? What is the impact of schooling on lifetime earnings? How does the internal rate of return compare with opportunity cost of funds? To what extent do progressive taxes attenuate the incentives to invest in education? This paper...

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